---
title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: Rpt_Aria_MultipleSearchLandmarks"
---
import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
<Row>
<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### Who does this affect?
* Blind people using screen readers

### Why is this important?

When there is more than one element with the `"search"` landmark role, each must have a unique, meaningful label so that assistive technologies can identify and navigate to each one.

</Column>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

<div id="locLevel"></div>

### Multiple elements with `"search"` role do not have unique labels
Each element with a `"search"` role must have a unique label that describes its purpose

[IBM 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks](http://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines/ci162/bypass_blocks.html) | [W3C WCAG 2.1 technique ARIA6](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/aria/ARIA6) |  [W3C WCAG 2.1 technique ARIA13](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/aria/ARIA13)

<div id="locSnippet"></div>

### What to do

* For each element with a `"search"` role, either set the value of the `aria-labelledby` attribute to the `id` value of any visible text that appropriately and uniquely describes that search element's purpose;
* OR, use the `aria-label` attribute to add an invisible, unique, non-empty label to each element with the `"search"` role.

For example:

<CodeSnippet type="multi" light={true}>&lt;div role="search" aria-label="Weather portlet"&gt;
...
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div role="search" aria-label="Stock ticker portlet"&gt;
...
&lt;/div&gt;</CodeSnippet>


</Column>
</Row>
</div>

export default ({ children, _frontmatter }) => (<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>)